are you addicted to eating tasty food? To drinking beverages other than water?

Talking about addiction is incredibly difficult because a significant amount of the global population is genuinely physically and i think psychologically dependent on caffeine for basic everyday functioning, but no one wants to fucking admit it.
The reality is that """drugs""" is kind of a made up concept to scare people, like how """weeds""" are just whatever plant someone considers unwanted. There's no hard line between a """drug""" and medicine, and what one person considers a drug might be something another person considers as normal as using perfume.

Alcohol, for example, is quite addictive and directly leads to a horrifying number of deaths and lifetimes of suffering; yet barely anyone considers it a drug. We've tried banning alcohol consumption, and the results of that are why i think the concept of """drugs""" is low-key evil.

and this is true of like, all medicine.
My dad is on diabetes and heart medicine, and before he found the ones that work for him they basically just turned him into a zombie, multiple months of him being walking dead that he barely even remembers.

Doctors should really be way more proactive about this, telling people to come back if they're the slightest bit unhappy with the treatment and maybe even offering to try a bunch of different drugs first before setting on one.
It's frankly disgusting that they just leave patients to potentially suffer their entire lives if the person never decides to complain about the medicine.

i find it funny to imagine the reactions of people who say "nooooooo adhd meds are addictive!" if you took their glasses or shoes.

somehow a borderline complete dependency on those things is fine, but medication to balance your brain chemicals? fucking druggie addicts smhh

Rube Goldberg would be proud

so why do we need anything more than "hello i have adhd symptoms, here's my diagnosis" followed by "indeed you do here's the hardcore instadeath drugs of doom, good day"

i think it's safe to conclude that they're just a troll

AFAIK yes, but no. Same family of compounds but not the same thing, like comparing opioid drugs to straight up opium.

If you want me to go on arguing, you’ll have to pay for another five minutes.

i don't think most people do, tbh. Pretty sure i see people who self-identify as either of them call themselves the other, not even realizing they said a different word.

i feel like part of the problem is that there are jackshit small "cars", if it was equally easy to buy a 2-seater with a bit of trunk space then i at least hope lots of people would buy that, and that would make things much less inherently antagonistic.

My hot take is that the standard modern car design is fucking horrible in basically every single way, and 99.99999% of people should instead get either a van, minibus, or a 2-seater.

we are not running out of space, that's ecofascist propaganda. We could probably support like.. idk, 10x more people if we wanted to?

The problem isn't the population size, it's how we handle things. We have to stop relying on fossil fuels that dump poison into the air, stop having everyone drive all the time, stop eating meat all the time, stop having it be normal to live in a massive house with 5 km² of yard.. etc etc..

We need to model things much more like Hong Kong et al (or the netherlands, if asia scares you), than america, if we want to have a nice world to live in.

which i ironically find fairly difficult to read

atkinson hyperlegible ftw